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Politics • 29 September 2023
Voice ‘legally safe’ and ‘will not result in excessive litigation’, says Law Council
The proposed Voice to Parliament is “simple, straightforward, safe and modest”, and lawyers have a duty to ensure people...
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The Bar • 16 June 2023
Kiefel CJ to retire early
Susan Kiefel AC, the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, will be departing from the bench slightly earlier than the...
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Politics • 11 May 2023
Former Bar Association presidents call shadow A-G’s Voice comments ‘wrong’, ‘not correct’
In an interview with News Corp earlier this week, Senator Michaelia Cash said that the proposed Voice to Parliament would...
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The Bar • 10 May 2023
Victorian Bar members to vote on body’s Voice stance
Any decision by the Victorian Bar to support the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, or not take a public position, will...
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While acknowledging there is a “diversity of views” among its members, the Law Institute of Victoria has thrown its...
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Following claims made in News Corp last week that pro-Voice barristers will benefit financially from the passing of such...
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Australia has “unfinished constitutional business”, and the proposed Voice to Parliament should be passed in a...
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In advice published earlier this morning by A-G Dreyfus, Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue KC has stressed that the...
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The nation’s oldest independent bar association has expressed support for the wording in the amendments proposed for...
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As lawyers, we should not shy away from the difficult discussions to be had in the months to come. We should accept the...
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Gilbert + Tobin has appointed a constitutional lawyer and recognised constitutional expert Professor Anne Twomey AO as a...
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The reporting stemming from an inquiry undertaken by former High Court judge Virginia Bell into Scott Morrison’s...
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‘Tis the Halloween season when “darkness falls across the land/The midnight hour is close at hand …” (as Michael...
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The International Bar Association (IBA) has condemned the arrest and pre-trial detention of Russian...
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